On the season premiere of Prologued, we confront the myth of the women's voting bloc in the aftermath of the 2016 election and during the 2020 election cycle. Then, to truly understand the truth of the women's bloc, we take you back--all the way back to the American Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united. 

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Background Reading & Digging Deeper

Here is the New York Times article Sarah references in the beginning!

Find digital copies Abigail and John Adams correspondence, including the Remember the Ladies letter, at the Massachusetts Historical Society's webpage!

Read more on Sojourner Truth and the Ain't I a Woman speech on the Sojourner Truth Memorial's webpage!

For more on the split over "universal suffrage," check our Ellen Carol Dubois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848–1869. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

For more on the temperance movement in Ohio, check out the Ohio History Connection!

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